Today's Legion news covers Tier 19 Shaman Armor, Battle Pets in Val'sharah including Jeune sabre fantomatique, and how Artifact Knowledge works.\r\r\r\rTier 19 Shaman Armor\rEarlier in the week, we posted Shaman Tier 19 models (Normal, Heroic, Alliance, Horde). Today we have videos of the tier set, as well as the more elaborate Mythic and Elite PvP models!\r\rThese videos preview the armor sets on all Shaman races and the mythic sets also show off Shaman artifact weapons--Marteau-du-Destin\/Fureur de la Pierre-Mère, Poing de Ra Den, Sharas'dal, sceptre des marées. You can browse more Artifact Weapon Appearances on the Artifact Calculator Appearance Tab and preview them on your character in the Legion Dressing Room.\r\r\r\r\rBelow are images of the Mythic and Elite PvP Shaman sets, click on the images to enlarge them.\r\r\r\r\r\rHere is a comparison to the regular look - the shoulders are less elaborate and the armor in general is missing unique lava effects (mythic) or blue jagged details (PvP).\r\r\rArtifact Knowledge\rPlayers have been asking how catch-up mechanisms and gating will work for Artifact Weapons, and it looks like Artifact Knowledge on the alpha may be part of the answer. This system is likely to be changed as the alpha\/beta progresses, but here's what it's like right now:\rAt the top left of the Artifact Trait UI, there is a number for Artifact Knowledge. This number reflects the amount of traits you can activate in game. While you can acquire as much artifact power as you like, you are limited on spending it all at once.\rBefore the holidays, knowledge was capped across the alpha server at Level 6. When the servers came back up in January, knowledge had increased to Level 8. There appears to be no way for players to change the Knowledge Level on their own.\rIn addition to gating how Artifact Power is spent, the Knowledge level affects the cost of each Artifact Trait Rank. As the Knowledge level increases, the Artifact rank cost decreases. For example, at Knowledge Level 6, the first two points cost 100 Artifact Power, the third cost 200, and the fourth cost 300. At Knowledge level 8, the first four points cost 100 Artifact Power each, and the fifth costs 200.\rSo in its current form, a higher Knowledge level serves as a catch-up mechanism for alts and players who started the weapon process later, as the earlier ranks will be cheaper to acquire.\r\rWe have added the Artifact Knowledge number to our Artifact Calculator and the costs now reflect Level 8, up from 6.\r\r\r\rVal'sharah Pet Preview\rContinuing with our look at Val’sharah, here's a look at some of the battle pets we've found in the zone.\r\rRares and Treasures\rRonchon: Free Grumpy from a burning building. "You saved him, but maybe he saved you."\rJeune sabre fantomatique: Spectral pet dropped by Ombrenoire in the military-themed Ravencourt subzone. "Eternally cute."\rPetit cendregueule: Save this bear cub from evil faeries! "This little guy has had a rough start at life, be sure to take good care of him."\rOndulin fétide: Drop from Pollous le Fétide. "After a long night out mages find that their water elementals smell a bit off."\r\r\r\rWild Pets\r\rBassaris rusé acajou: Is it three white stripes on a brown tail, or two brown stripes on a white tail?\rLarve de terreur: The nightmare larva seeks a host to feed on their dreams and terrors. Soon the larva will grow into the host's worst fears.\rAquamouche chatoyante: On very rare occasions glowflies synchronize their flashing creating a spectacular sight for any adventurer lucky enough to catch this phenomenon.\rBrunécaille glissant: These snakes are extrodinarily docile creatures. However, they blend with their environment so well that many adventurers tread too closely to a nest. Most bites result from totally avoidable incidents.\rTrotteur des sources: Striders glow brightest during spring, hence the name.\rPapillonneur du val: Vale fllitter normally have incredibly long lifespans. That was until people found use for them in pet battles.

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Commentaire de worldofpunks

Commentaire de Livvi

on 2016-01-17T11:37:20-06:00

Hopefully they will fix the belt for the Horde. Poor Troll male has a bad case of hemorrhoids.

Commentaire de Stiven

on 2016-01-17T11:38:29-06:00

anyone else notice the phallic looking belt from the shaman? LOL...\rIt's alpha, and this set is not quite yet finished. Mythic ice shoulders also have the problem, and I guess it will be all fixed in next future builds.

Commentaire de iceman994

on 2016-01-17T11:46:37-06:00

I think these are the best Tier I have ever seen for Shaman Im gonna sell my Soul for Legion Please Blizzard feed my addiction.

Commentaire de guardiantitan

on 2016-01-17T12:03:00-06:00

Now that you mention the phallic thing, I can't unsee it. >_> Someone report that to Blizzard so they can fix it. Otherwise, if you assume someone else will report it, then no one will.\r\rRather stupid that shamans get 4 variations of their tier while everyone else gets 2 (normal and mythic). Is Blizzard going to go back and change the other tier so they have 4 variations, too? I don't think I've ever seen them go back and change any armor except for fixing a few effects.

Commentaire de blckheart

on 2016-01-17T12:16:43-06:00

So confirm, the ice set is indeed pve for shamans?

Commentaire de perculia

on 2016-01-17T12:56:37-06:00

So confirm, the ice set is indeed pve for shamans?\r\rUsually there are two sets marked as Mythic in Blizzard's data, and one color is used for Mythic, and another for Elite PvP. Similar to how four are marked as Tier 19, but are used for normal, heroic, Alliance and Horde. The red one is likely to be for PvE as the datamined mythic icons have a red tint. Which would leave blue for Elite PvP.

Commentaire de Truegoranus

on 2016-01-17T13:38:30-06:00

Uh-hohoho. This is the bomb. especially with the Molten skin. What a beautiful armor set.

Commentaire de blckheart

on 2016-01-17T13:55:04-06:00

So confirm, the ice set is indeed pve for shamans?\r\rUsually there are two sets marked as Mythic in Blizzard's data, and one color is used for Mythic, and another for Elite PvP. Similar to how four are marked as Tier 19, but are used for normal, heroic, Alliance and Horde. The red one is likely to be for PvE as the datamined mythic icons have a red tint. Which would leave blue for Elite PvP.\r\rThis saddens me because im really really bad at pvp. But at least the molten set looks nice.

Commentaire de SparkleSparkle

on 2016-01-17T14:45:11-06:00

Another spectral kitty. Wheeeeee!

Commentaire de moosecat11

on 2016-01-17T14:50:40-06:00

Disappointed in the risen saber kitten and that bear pet. The old models just looks so out of place now =\/\r\rShaman tier is pretty awesome, though. Even the non mythic\/elite version (which is more than I can say for most of the classes I've seen so far...)

Commentaire de daftgamer

on 2016-01-17T17:56:55-06:00

So is artifact knowledge confirmed as purely a catch up mechanism or is it initially affected by player level (i.e. will there be an advantage to hoarding AP until level\/AP cap)?

Commentaire de Lovetails

on 2016-01-17T18:09:22-06:00

Love the cute pets !

Commentaire de Soeroah

on 2016-01-17T22:27:04-06:00

So is artifact knowledge confirmed as purely a catch up mechanism or is it initially affected by player level (i.e. will there be an advantage to hoarding AP until level\/AP cap)?\r\rThe tone of the article sounds like Blizzard will manually increase everyone's Artifact Knowledge over the course of the expansion, perhaps once a month or so, to gate progression through the Traits in addition to making it easier to unlock things for alts.\r\rIf so, starting a Mage in Legion four months into the expansion should result in that Mage being able to catch up to your main character quicker, due to the traits being cheaper for the Mage than they were for the main.\r\rThat's unless Knowledge is changed to be like a BoA token you use to level up Artifact Knowledge on your alts. Personally, while I dislike gating, I hope for the former situation, as it'll be a lot easier to max out all the Artifacts later on in Legion without having to farm materials to make it go quicker.

Commentaire de Iamme

on 2016-01-17T23:04:47-06:00

Since Thrall loses all his. ...balls in Legion, Shamans are getting ball compensator.

Commentaire de SFFCorgi

on 2016-01-18T02:48:44-06:00

Disappointed in the risen saber kitten and that bear pet. The old models just looks so out of place now =\/\r\rGive them a chance - there's so many assets to work through, they'll certainly get to these base models too.

Commentaire de Filipse

on 2016-01-18T08:43:03-06:00

So armors are back to just being lazy recolours of eachother, and all classes looking the same in the patch if they're in their respective gear? WoW after WoD starting patch realy has taken a turn towards being lazy on design on gears, i for one thought it was sloppy and lazy back in Wotlk too, it hasnt changed much for the better (aside small features) despite now having "supponsed" 600 people working on Warcraft over the 30-60 people that did TBC, and still managed to pull out much more content than passion than we've ever had in an expansion since.

Granted it's probatly corporate greed, overcoming a good thing eventualy, i dont ever think WoW will ever be back to TBC-levels of quality and content-ammount, no matter what it tries, 600 vs 30-60 people working or WoW or not, it just feels as if cash income is dictacting where the game is going over the passion that used to be, nobody works overtime at Blizzard to ensure the product is up to standard of quality, Warlords of Draenor is just the result of that, and that's Blizzard's own fault for not putting proper effort in.

Despite all this,i know you can make a good game if you actualy try, but you've lost the spirit and the way, you've grown arrogant as the standing king of the MMO-Genre, greed has poisoned your soul, and i think it's about time someone took your crown, if only to knock you off your pediestal of denial, and back to showing passion.

I sincerely hope Warlords of Draenor has taught Blizzard something, when it comes to ethics, and the price of spending on marketing-tricks over clever design, i am not hopefull for Legion, because that's how you get burned these days, WoD killed the "New Expansion" hype for me, and the hype will stay dead untill it's proven that they can make a decent product again.

That's just my opinion though, feel free to comment below, wheter you disagree or agree, even if i doubt much of a constructive discussion will be had, one can be hopefull and try.

Commentaire de batrat

on 2016-01-18T09:21:21-06:00

Hopefully they will fix the belt for the Horde. Poor Troll male has a bad case of hemorrhoids.\r\rlaughed soooo hard xD

Commentaire de orca1375x

on 2016-01-18T12:50:38-06:00

Im really get tired of neg..16 paragraphs.if you dont like get unsub dont play and dont post crap...in other words dont let the door hit you where the sun dont shine....\r\r\r I cannot wait to play my ele shaman..im pve no pvp period and quest and raid..this is going to be fun

Commentaire de Aralnda

on 2016-01-18T13:51:33-06:00

A request please. You have been using the same two or 3 types of music for each video regarding legion, time for something different please? It is beautiful but I hear it in every artifact, pet, model, even, dungeon, etc video you have. I guess I could turn the music off though.